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The New Yorker: After a Hundred Days, Trump Is Trump Is Trump
On the first day of his second hundred days in office, Donald Trump visited familiar terrain: Trump National Golf Club, in Sterling, Virginia. According to Mark Knoller, a White House correspondent for CBS News, it was the twentieth visit that Trump has made to one his golf clubs in Florida or Virginia since his swearing-in. In all likelihood, Trump thought that he deserved a few hours on the links after all his exertions trying to put a positive spin on three months of chaos, bluster, sabre-rattling, and the trashing of historical norms.
At the end of last week, Trump gave a series of media interviews, during which he exhibited anew his distant and contingent relationship with reality and the truth. On Saturday, he flew to Harrisburg, in central Pennsylvania, where he delivered a campaign-style address that CNN’s David Gergen, who has served in four different White Houses, described as “the most divisive speech I have ever heard a sitting President give.”
Some people who watched Trump’s dystopian Inaugural Address might quibble with Gergen’s assessment, but his point stands. And if there was anybody suffering under the illusion that Trump might actually have learned something from the setbacks he has encountered since January 20th, or that he might have decided to embrace a less confrontational approach, Saturday’s speech served as a useful corrective. To misquote Gertrude Stein, “Trump is a Trump is a Trump is a Trump.”
Standing before a backdrop of supporters carrying signs that read “PROMISES MADE. PROMISES KEPT,” Trump spent much of his speech doing what he has done many times before: boasting about his election victory, berating his enemies in the “fake news” media and the Democratic Party, whipping up nativism and nationalism among his supporters, and promising to restore a lost world in which white working-class Americans of limited education can get good jobs that last a lifetime.
More: http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/after-a-hundred-days-trump-is-trump-is-trump
F**k tRump.
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